True Womanhood

True Womanhood



The Yellow Wallpaper story:
https://www.nlm.nih.gov/theliteratureofprescription/exhibitionAssets/digitalDocs/The-Yellow-Wall-Paper.pdf


True Womanhood Final Project:

cultofdomproject.docx

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How to Be Unlady Like

by Maeve Terry

Chomp your gum like you have something to say

because you do.

Unleash your opinions on your peers.

You know what you’re talking about.

Wear a dress and sit how you want.

Your body is your body.

Cuss like a pirate,

because Grace O’Malley is one of your idols.

Become a woman in power.

Don’t cry over the names men give you

because they’re afraid of not being masculine.

Being a man isn’t measured in that.

Learn how to use a power saw.

Or not.

Don’t wear makeup if you don’t want to,

or do, it’s your choice,

not mine, or anyone else’s.

For Christ’s sake, fart and burp!

You are a human being.

Don’t chew with your mouth open.

That has nothing to do with being unlady like,

it’s just being polite.

Remember to say thank you.

Learning and knowing how to cook

doesn’t have to be a gender specific role,

because only 21.5% of head chefs in this country

are women.

Be bossy

Being a boss is awesome.

Have a firm handshake.

That’s what my grandfather taught me.

Wear the clothes you want.

Menswear, dresses, jeans, a filthy dirty uniform.

It doesn’t matter.

It’s your choice.

When I hear

“A lady’s voice is always sweet and gentle, and never shouts in public!”

I want to scream!

How else are you supposed to catch a cab?

Being a woman, being a lady

is who you are.

Being yourself is what makes you a lady.

Not how you hold yourself in public,

not how you fit a 50’s ideal.

"A Jury of Her Peers" (Story): http://www1.law.umkc.edu/Academic/Spring2011/assignments/MiniTerm/AJuryofHerPeers.pdf

Let's begin with the founding ideas that really put the assault on women in America (of course after Puritan America put an assault on all of humanity).

Web-site for Epigraphs

http://www.quotegarden.com/feminism.html

Essay Rubric




http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/lavender/386/truewoman.html



More Cultural Satire: Women Don't Drive








Animation for "Creep" by Radiohead (If you like good music, then get to know Radiohead)http://www.lowmorale.co.uk/creep/flash/lm_creep_%28FLASH%29.swf

Here's another tune by Eddie Vedder (lead singer of Pearl Jam)The lyrics have to do with a narrator who wants out of a crazy society




Lyrics: http://www.metrolyrics.com/society-lyrics-eddie-vedder.html